Optoelectronic modeling in multiple dimensions
Sesame is an open source drift-diffusion-Poisson solver in one and two dimensions. It can describe optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LED's. Sesame is designed to easily model planar defects such as grain boundaries and sample surfaces.
Download and install
Sesame is free software covered by the 3-clause BSD license. The source code is available on Github.
A compiled version of the code has been built for Microsoft Windows. The executable contains all the dependencies necessary to run Sesame together with the tutorials. An installer of this distribution is available.
Documentation and tutorials
A complete documentation of the distribution is available. It contains examples on how to run Sesame both from the command line and the graphical user interface.
Additionally, the introduction paper of Sesame presents the design and benchmarks on concrete examples. The published version is accessible here, and a preprint can be found here.Tutorial on Sesame GUI:
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